The most fearsome brain painting has ever known’ is how Giorgio Vasari described Jacopo Robusti (or Canal), better known as Tintoretto (1519-1594). This revolutionary artist is one of the main Italian 16th century painters never to have had a major monographic exhibition devoted to his work to date. If we igno re the thematic exhibition of his portraits held in Venice in 1994, the last exhibition of his work was held in 1937, also because it is virtually impossible to move his huge Venetian canvases.